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Chris did start his racing on grass and very successful he was, too. On a very rapid 646 cc BSA he won the sidecar
National championship in 1958, breaking Bill Evans' (636 Norton) four-year run of wins. Chris was thus one of the first to race a BSA twin successfully on grass; he graduated to
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American George Bell pulled the finance from the race team, putting the project up for sale, leaving Vincent without machinery. Vincent retired from competition in 1974 after campaigning a Yamaha-engined outfit, although he continued to ride in
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His sons Max (born 1969) and Jason (born 1972) were both established as solo motorcycle road-racers by the 1990 season. Jason 'Jay' Vincent was a successful racer at national, international and world level during the 1990s and continuing into the 2000s, scoring points in the
British round of
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makes rules to suit themselves. As I see it, an outfit making more than two tracks is a three wheeler. If the outfits had been checked, many could have been excluded. Chris
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Before becoming well known through road-racing in the 1960s, Vincent returned to work for BSA as a bike-tester based in the
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Bad news for Chris
Vincent—the FIM have banned cyclecars from the classics for 1966, though not from other International events. They say such three-wheelers are not in the spirit of what they intended for the
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During the middle 1960s, sidecar riders sought to achieve greater engine capacities and basic raw power. This included use of car engines and three-wheeled, car-type layouts driving a pair of front wheels.
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He started to develop a new concept with a repositioned
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road racing, on a BSA, in 1959. Now well known also as a solo rider, in his first race he shared a BSA C15 with Bert Morris in the 1961 Silverstone 1000 and went like a bomb between pit stops.
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which is fundamental for high-speed cornering. Vincent believed his road-racing success was in part due to his experiences on grass giving him an advantage over many of his rivals, stating "
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Vincent's outfit for 1958, showing the Manx Norton frame, forks, swinging arm and wheels with BSA A10 engine/gearbox, clip-on handlebars and rear-set footrests
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Never really in the hunt was Chris
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Whilst working for Norton, Vincent came into contact with established sidecar racer Cyril Smith and became interested in sidecars, later becoming grasstrack
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in the 1950s, Chris' own frame designs enabled a sidecar outfit with a much lower frontal area and smaller proportions hence better streamlining and lower
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with passenger Eric Bliss whom he first raced with for part of the 1961 season, establishing the first all-British
Sidecar TT win since 1954, the first
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Chris
Vincent M/C, High Street, Earl Shilton, Leicester, LE9 7DH. " the 100% Yamaha Centre". Yamaha LC250/350 Belly Pans, matching fairings available
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motorhome (a compact-size, high-quality, low-volume production, low exterior profile, coachbuilt camper with a BMW diesel engine) and owned
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